Hart said he trusts in head football coach Butch Jones “implicitly,” or by literal definition, absolutely and unconditionally. This implicit trust was conveyed in the immediate wake of a lawsuit accusing the coach of calling former player Drae Bowles a traitor for comforting an alleged victim of rape. Six players on the 2014 football roster were accused of sexual assault, and eight women have filed suit against Tennessee for its handling of sexual assault allegations against male athletes.